Your Friendly Philosopher & Guide

I have been blogging for 4 weeks now, and have got varied feedback from friends and other bloggers. Just 2 days back my friend Rajan (http://ouchmytoe.rediffblogs.com) commented that my blog on CONDOMS (scroll down to read) wasn’t good compared to other blogs. He said it wasn’t well researched! And yesterday my brother in law told me that my style of writing is good, and I should take up writing as my career or at least make money out of it.

Honestly I never thought I am a good writer, I just write my thoughts down. Isn’t it visible from the way I have started this blog on ‘why women wear lipstick’ with some crappy intro?!!
Now about the 3-inch red think women like to hold and rub on their lips, but hate to swallow!

Lipsticks were invented in the US decades back and were mostly used by sex workers (formerly known as prostitutes). When introduced, lipsticks were available only in red/pink colour, and when applied on the lips it was meant to denote some OTHER inner lips, which turns RED when a woman is erotically aroused. I am not going any deeper.

Sex workers primarily used lipsticks to attract men and let them know that they are ready to be taken. Later it was used by filmstars and celebrities - again to attract men this time on the subconscious level. Once it became predominant in movies, it became a fashion!

The Indian version of lipstick was betel leaves. Even today if you notice, in most Indian movies a wicked woman or a mistress who owns a brothel is shown chewing betel leaves to keep her lips RED.

It was much later that lipsticks started coming into the market in various colours – brown, black, violet et al but even today red lipsticks are the most selling ones.

Now, if you have been thinking that women wear lipstick to nourish their lips…think again. Why should any nourishing agent be RED in colour, and why not colourless like Vaseline!

Hey, Rajan is this well researched? ;) Your comments are welcome!